BHAGAVAD-GITA 10:14

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BHAGAVAD-GITA 10:14

 

sarvam etad rtam manye

yan mam vadasi kesava

na hi te bhagavan vyaktim

vidur deva na danavah

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

sarvam--all; etat--this; rtam--truth; manye--I accept; yat--which;

mam--unto me; vadasi--You tell; kesava--O Krsna; na--never;

hi--certainly; te--Your; bhagavan--O Personality of Godhead;

vyaktim--revelation; viduh--can know; devah--the demigods; na--nor;

danavah--the demons.

 

TRANSLATION

 

O Krsna, I totally accept as truth all that You have told me. Neither

the demigods nor the demons, O Lord, can understand Your personality.

 

PURPORT

 

Arjuna herein confirms that persons of faithless and demonic nature

cannot understand Krsna. He is not known even by the demigods, so what

to speak of the so-called scholars of this modern world? By the grace

of the Supreme Lord, Arjuna has understood that the Supreme Truth is

Krsna and that He is the perfect one. One should therefore follow the

path of Arjuna. He received the authority of Bhagavad-gita. As

described in the Fourth Chapter, the parampara system of disciplic

succession for the understanding of Bhagavad-gita was lost, and

therefore Krsna reestablished that disciplic succession with Arjuna

because He considered Arjuna His intimate friend and a great devotee.

Therefore, as stated in our Introduction to Gitopanisad, Bhagavad-gita

should be understood in the parampara system. When the parampara

system was lost, Arjuna was selected to rejuvenate it. The acceptance

by Arjuna of all that Krsna says should be emulated; then we can

understand the essence of Bhagavad-gita, and then only can we

understand that Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

 

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